Exxon Valdez Table of Contents Introduction: (Skinner, S.K. and Reilly, W.K., 1989)[1] A catastropic event taken place on March 24th 1989 at Prince William Sound, Alaska. An Oil Tanker known as Exxon Valdez owned by Exxon Shipping company was transporting 53.09451 million US gallons of crude oil. At 12:04 am the ship struck the Prince William Sound, Bligh reef. This caused 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil to spill hereby creating a huge environmental disaster and it was known that…
1.1) Spatial and Functional Mapping The Shannon Foynes Port Company (herein SFPC) services six facilities on the Shannon Estuary. The facilities at Foynes, Limerick Docks and Shannon Airport are owned by the company and the other three dedicated terminals are all privately owned. The Port of Foynes Size The Port estate comprises of 53.31 hectares with 42.5 hectares of land in the ownership of the SFPC and 10.7 hectares in third party ownership. Of the land in the ownership of the SFPC; • 18.7…
• Canada produced 7% of world’s farmed salmon in 2009. • In 2011, BC produced 75,870 tonnes of finfish (93% is salmon) worth $445,400,000, and farmed salmon products were 75% of total salmon sale value, compared to 25% by capture salmon. • Over the last 25 years, world production of farmed salmon expanded by 600%. • In 2007, BC’s GDP for…
effect has a definite cause. Numerous sensational and inspiring innovations which have made the quality of life easy and better has a profound effect. The cause of this effect are people who analyze problems, innovate and devise a remedy. Such people are called Engineers. Engineers have had a massive contribution in every sphere of life. Along with innovation comes a huge protocol which is essential to be endorsed by every engineer: The Code of Ethics. The role of an engineer is not only to…
Due to the increase in demand for renewable energy a surge in large dam projects for hydropower generation is expected. Because hydropower is one of the most economic energy sources and is renewable along with other benefits such as irrigation, flood mitigation, navigation and water supply. In case of construction of large dams changes in terrestrial ecosystems can alter the climate, soils, vegetation, water resources and bio diversity. Therefore it is essential to understand the environmental…
INTRODUCTION Georges Mougin, a renowned engineer and glaciologist had an innovative idea to quench the thirst of billions of people. His brain child, the Ice dream project is a revolutionary project which aims at providing fresh drinking water to the entire world. This report describes today's water crisis problem, possible solutions, challenges, proposals for funding future activities of Ice dream project, discussion of the proposals followed by conclusions and recommendation. THE PROBLEM In…
Emissions from tree clearing have been estimated to be 673 to 825 Mt co2e for the next 15 years which is equivalent to 3-4 coal power plants running for the same time period. In 1980 the clearing of vegetation contributed 28 million tonnes of carbon contributing 22% to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions that year. Some of the effects this has had on the Australian environment is the increase of temperature ( approx 1.0c) with the most rapid warming occurring in east australia since…
Background Information Introduction Sweatshops are highly controversial in many ways relating to Human rights, Greed, Consumerism, feminism issues and Environmental ethics. This section of report will briefly outline these four issues relating to sweatshops. Human rights breaches Sweatshops breach the universal declaration of human rights (UDHR). The UDHR states “everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and period holidays with pay” (Article…
The rise of Russia as a socialist, totalitarian nation under Josef Stalin would not have been possible without Vladimir Lenin’s economic and social policies. After the revolution in 1917, Lenin led the communist, Bolshevik party that controlled Russia. It will be argued that Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was an instrumental step in the foundation of totalitarian Russia. It will be shown through the increased economic stability, the introduction of laws to gain further dictatorial control of…
Climate Change and Structural Engineers The sun is the main source of energy to the planet and annually it supplies the earth with certain amount of energy. Some of this energy is reflected back to space directly, but the rest that enters the planets is either absorbed by the atmosphere and earth surface or reflected back to space. However some of the energy is trapped by the atmosphere to warm the earth’s surface in a natural way. This phenomenon is called the ‘The Greenhouse Effect’ which is…